Top 5 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Guatemala in October 2023

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• Kaptyn — Transforming the Las Vegas ride service experience for good by building a platform of sustainable vehicles and professional drivers.
• Getaround — Getaround empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with a $1M insurance policy and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using its app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car.Powered by Getaround ConnectTM, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe carsharing experience is without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment.Headquartered in San Francisco, Getaround has thousands of cars available throughout major metropolitan areas across the United States. Existing investors in Getaround include Menlo Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Asset Plus, Triangle Peak Partners, SPARX Group, Toyota Motor Corporation, Cox Automotive Inc., and SAIC Capital.
• Menlo Micro — Since 2016, Menlo Micro combines the strengths of the relay with the merits of the transistor, our revolutionary technology is smaller, faster, & more powerful.

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• Signalit — Signalit brings clarity and order to the noise in data management, empowering organizations to work at the edge of their data.
• Innovamat — InnovaMat is a company that aims to revolutionize the learning of mathematics by transforming the classroom and the relationships that occur in it to excite, stimulate and motivate students. The materials put the student at the center of his own teaching-learning process and allows him to develop autonomy and critical thinking: an emotional andexciting process designed to engage the student through positive stimuli. To achieve this, InnovaMat proposes contextualized mathematics, a flexible curriculum, varied activities based on manipulative material and applets, techniques and strategies that facilitate the evaluation and management of the 21st century classroom, the personalization of learning, cooperative learning or gamification .
• Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.

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• Freightify — Integrated platform for freight rate management, sailing schedules, and freight quotes. Easy rate search to customer management. All in one dashboard.
• Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
• Underlining — Underlining a beauty and wellness company that creats innovative products across multiple beauty verticals.

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• Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
• ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
• Exactly — Exactly is a decentralized, non-custodial, open-source protocol providing an autonomous fixed and variable interest rate market.

Portfolio highlights

• Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
• ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
• Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.